Just discovered that apparently today, February 20, is “Love Your Pet Day.”
English: Love heart (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Did you know this? Are you doing anything special for your pet(s) today?
Today is “Love Your Pet Day”
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Where To Put Your Dog’s Poop? – There’s An App For That!
Tonight I discovered a free app for iphone/ipod/ipad where you can tag and find places to dump your dogs poop, (aka waste bins) and locate pet friendly services/locations. Yep, there’s an app for that! (are we surprised?)
Users receive “stars” or “points” for tagging and using the app (and the waste bins!) that they can redeem for gift vouchers, for what, I’m not exactly sure. The app is community based and there is also the option to share photos of your dog with other app users.
screenshot – doggydoodar.com
Check out DoggyDooDar.com for details.
Poll: What Are The Best Toys For A Golden Retriever?
I didn’t have enough feedback to do a post on the Top 10 Toys for Golden Retrievers this year, but this blog is new, so I am hoping that by next Christmas I can have enough feedback to create a Top Ten List.
Two Golden Retriever dogs playing with a dog toy shaped like a duck’s head. The dogs’ names are “Elly” and “Sophie”. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
My personal favorites are the ChuckIt Glo ball and the Kong Wubba Tuggit. Some say tennis balls, plain and simple. Tucker loves those! I also love his stuffie Mallard that he finally received this Christmas. He just looks so cute carrying it around in his mouth. (It has since been destroyed)
If Tucker had his way, his favorite toy would be anything he can rip to shreds.
Please participate and share with your fellow golden owners!
Police Rescue Drowning Golden Retriever
This one happened close to home. In Ancaster, Ontario, Max, a golden retriever was trapped in ice in a two acre pond struggling for survival for at least 45 minutes while the family, including 4 young children, watched in horror. Instead of risking their lives, the Stam family did the right thing and called for help. A special marine unit from the Hamilton Police Service who are trained in ice rescue responded with their gear. Cst Marty Bushell swam out and pulled the dog to safety while his partner James Suthery had his back.
Photo: Scott Gardner/The Hamilton Spectator
Max was taken to the vet and given a clean bill of health. The children made a card for the police officers to thank them.
Credit: Scott Gardner/The Hamilton Spectator
Message here is “no ice is safe ice” says Cst. Suthery. If your dog is trapped in ice, please call police or fire, do not try to rescue the dog yourself!
I love happy endings!
For the full story from The Hamilton Spectator click here.
Golden Retriever Works At Dental Office
Brooke is a four year old golden retriever with a part time job. Her owner, Dr. Paul Weiss works at a pediatric dental office, and he brings four legged companion with him to the office two days a week. Brooke is a trained therapy dog.
Brooke helps ease the kids fear of dental work by laying and cuddling with the child during procedures.
In one article in the The Globe and Mail, Amberly McAteer writes “Even for a dog-loving, dentist-fearing girl, this is going too far.”
Dogs at the office? – Fine, but this is taking it too far.
Some of the comments in the articles question if this is sanitary. Weiss says the office is thoroughly cleaned and Brooke has baths before her shifts at the office. Personally, I wouldn’t mind snuggling with a golden while having my teeth worked on.
Video from WGRZ.com
Please take a minute and leave your feedback. Do you think this is going too far?
Another Free Audiobook For Your Golden Retriever – Yalu and The Puppy Room
Yalu and The Puppy Room is a story about a 6 week old golden retriever living in a shelter waiting for her forever home. There are some parts that are rather sad, when all of the other dogs, including Yalu’s brothers and sisters, are getting adopted, but Yalu eventually finds her perfect forever home, with lots and lots of grass! The golden retriever tells the story, so its extra cute to play for your dog!
Book cover for Yalu and the Puppy Room. (PRNewsFoto/Little Brown Dog)
Here’s the free audiobook on YouTube.
Tucker and I give the story two thumbs up! (pretend Tucker has thumbs, okay!)
The story is written by Brian T Yates and and is based on the real story of how his dog chose their family. Brian is working on his next book Yalu and the Stinky Stink – where Yalu gets sprayed by, you guessed it – a skunk.
Yalu The Puppy Dog is a great site for kids with puzzles and pictures of Yalu. (those puzzles come in 80 piece classic too, fur us grown ups 
)
Adoptable Golden Retrievers – Rescue one today!
I vow to try my best to keep my Pinterest board up to date on Adoptable Golden Retrievers. Hopefully the links will show if they are adopted anyways, but thank you for reading this post, and considering rescuing a golden retriever. If you need assistance, please contact me at thedailygolden@gmail.com with the subject “rescue” and I will be sure to respond within 24 hours with local goldens in need of rescue.
Chris – 2 year old male – Golden Retriever Club of Greater Los Angeles Rescue CA. (click on picture for link)
Please click here to see my Pinterest board on adoptable golden retrievers. You can also Google “golden retriever rescue ___________” your state, province, whatever. Petfinder is another source, just use common sense and beware of those who want to “give away” their dog. (although sometimes, these can be the most urgent cases!)
Ideally, I would like to have a listing of all golden retriever rescue organizations…another thing I strive for.
If you are still reading this post, thank you! Thank you for considering Golden Retriever Rescue!
I have said it before and I will say it again, although I strongly support the dedicated and responsible golden retriever breeders, I vow to only choose rescue from here on out. I’ve been there, done that with the puppy (twice) and will continue to support the breed on a daily basis, but my heart strongly feels the need to reach out to one of these senior or special needs goldens. Now to convince the boyfriend…
Betty White. Just one more reason to love Golden Retrievers
Betty White is an actress and animal activist. She also happens to own a golden retriever named Pontiac. He was rescued from Guide Dogs For the Blind in 2010. Before that, she had a golden named Kitta, also a rescued former guide dog who had bad hips.
Betty was an only child growing up and only had pets as siblings. She eventually came to love the golden retriever for it’s ability to read their humans feelings. Kitta took care of Betty after her hip surgery, and she spent her 90th birthday with her favorite companion, Pontiac.
“Once someone has had the good fortune to share a true love affair with a Golden Retriever, one’s life and one’s outlook is never quite the same.” –Betty White
I was born in the very early seventies, and grew up watching Betty White on Mary Tyler More, The Golden Girls,and more recently, on Hot in Cleveland and Off Their Rockers.
Betty was recently honored at The Second Annual American Humane Association’s Hero Dog Awards.Here she met Surf Dog Ricochet (another amazing Golden Retriever!) and agreed to match any donations that were raised on the sale of a custom made dog dress for dogs in need.
Click here to read the article from Dogster.
Here is Betty White and Pontiac pairing with the Morris Animal Foundation to fight canine cancer. Another great site that needs to be mentioned (and worth a whole blog post) is Land of Pure Gold. This is a site ran by Rochelle Lasseur dedicated to cancer research in golden retrievers. It is my favorite golden retreiver site on the web. Click here to read a great article about Betty White from Rochelle.
Thank you Betty White, for all you do for animals!
Golden Retriever Dies From Tainted Treats?
Gary and Carol Kriesel’s 3 year old golden retriever Emma was a perfectly happy and healthy dog. On October 3rd , Emma headed out to the wood pile with her human and sister dog Molly. Emma spasmodically flipped in the air and fell to the ground. She died immediately. Her death has yet to be explained. The owners remember giving her a chicken jerky treat (that was made in China) 5 minutes earlier. Their vet advised that they have a list of at least 20 recalls on pet treats recently. Could the treat have killed Emma? You can read the full story from Detroit Lakes Online here.
“Emma” – Detroit Lakes Online
I have read articles about jerky, pig’s ear, and other dog treats being contaminated recently. The standards for pet food are not like they are for humans, so many questionable items slip through the cracks. What are we rewarding our dogs with?
So sad about Emma. My heart goes out to the Kriesels. Since hearing this horrible news, I say make your own treats! I am on the lookout for some great grain-free recipes. If you have any, please share. What do you feed your golden for a reward? Tucker is most responsive to my baked liver.
The Golden Retriever “Bucket List”
I recently read an article in The Telegraph called “50 Things To Do Before You Die – If You’re A Dog” This list was compiled by TH>N pet insurance and TV vet Marc Abraham.
I found it to be a little elaborate, with the whole visiting another continent thing, as well as meeting a famous dog, and howling other words etc.
I decided to create my own, golden-retriever oriented list, just for fun.
Consider this the “Ultimate Golden Retriever Bucket List“
1. Play fetch. For a long time. Till you can’t play any longer.
2. Bring your human a shoe or article of clothing as often as you can.
3. Play “full out” with a group of kids.
4. Dig up the yard.
5. Go for a swim in the lake/ocean.
6. Run up to your humans and shake all over them after your swim in the lake/ocean.
Shake, Shake, Shake (Photo credit: IcK9s [M. H. Stephens])
7. Go for an off leash hike with your human.
8. Get sprayed by a skunk. (okay, maybe not this one, but it is almost inevitable)
9. Roll in a mud puddle.
Do you like my new look? (Photo credit: Kol Tregaskes)
10. Ruin a pair or slippers or shoes
11. Sleep in your owner’s bed
12. Wake your owner with a wet sloppy kiss
13. Ride in a car with your head out the window.
14. Relax by a fire.
15. Have a Facebook, Dogster, or Twitter account, or star in a YouTube video.
16 . Rip the stuffing out of a stuffed animal.
Tucker with Monkee (now minus the stuffing)
17 . Jump up on the company.
18. Play frisbee on the beach
19. Steal food from the counter.
20. Spread garbage all over the house.
I would love to add to this list, and hear your comments on what our goldens should experience! The best 5 will be chosen and added to “The Bucket List” to make it a Top 25, after January 1, 2013.
Please share this post with your fellow golden retriever humans!
